> [!quote] [In the Arctic, there are no trees. The Inuit made use of driftwood - what did they think this material was from? : AskHistorians](https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/sywh6l/in_the_arctic_there_are_no_trees_the_inuit_made) via [[rAskHistorians]] by [[Muskwatch]] (flaired user, Indigenous Languages of North America | Religious culture), 2022-02-26 (last [imported from highlight](https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/sywh6l/in_the_arctic_there_are_no_trees_the_inuit_made?__readwiseLocation=0%2F7%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F2%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A0%2C0%2F7%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F2%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A460#:~:text=That%20said%2C%20in%20my%20experience%2C%2Cshared%20with%20people%20further%20north.) 2022-06-02, ReadwiseID: id292061531) > That said, in my experience, any regularly sourced important item for a community has a body of knowledge around it, even if it is secured from a distance beyond a community's normal range of travel, and even for those communities of the high arctic without trees, it's hard to imagine that knowledge about a very important resource that was known to neighbouring related communities to the south would not also be carried and shared with people further north.